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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-7-333-2021
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Significant soil degradation is associated with intensive vegetable cropping in a subtropical area: a case study in southwestern China
Ming Lu
College of Resources and Environment, Chongqing Key Laboratory of
Efficient Utilization of Soil and Fertilizer Resources, Southwest
University, Chongqing 400715, China
David S. Powlson
Interdisciplinary Research Center for Agriculture Green Development in the Yangtze River Basin, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
Department of Sustainable Agriculture Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, UK
Yi Liang
College of Resources and Environment, Chongqing Key Laboratory of
Efficient Utilization of Soil and Fertilizer Resources, Southwest
University, Chongqing 400715, China
Dave R. Chadwick
Interdisciplinary Research Center for Agriculture Green Development in the Yangtze River Basin, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography, Bangor
University, Gwynedd LL57 2UW, UK
Shengbi Long
Jinping Station of Agricultural Technology Promotion, Guizhou 556700, China
College of Resources and Environment, Chongqing Key Laboratory of
Efficient Utilization of Soil and Fertilizer Resources, Southwest
University, Chongqing 400715, China
Xinping Chen
College of Resources and Environment, Chongqing Key Laboratory of
Efficient Utilization of Soil and Fertilizer Resources, Southwest
University, Chongqing 400715, China
Interdisciplinary Research Center for Agriculture Green Development in the Yangtze River Basin, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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Short summary
Land use changes are an important anthropogenic perturbation that can cause soil degradation, but the impacts of land conversion from growing cereals to vegetables have received little attention. Using a combination of soil analyses from paired sites and data from farmer surveys, we found significant soil degradation in intensive vegetable cropping under paddy rice–oilseed rape rotation in southwestern China. This study may alert others to the potential land degradation in the subtropics.
Land use changes are an important anthropogenic perturbation that can cause soil degradation,...